Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravelment
Literary usage of Ravelment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1845)
"... in his review of Diderot loses himself in what he calls the " eternal ravelment "
of the subject; asks if virtue is indeed synonymous with pleasure? ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Don't y5' raum over the table like that: ask for what yer want.' Hal. Diet.
has ' raum, to sprawl.' Suffolk. ravelment, sb. Entanglement. Glouc. ..."
3. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1904)
"The un- ravelment of the plot in the ridiculous farce you have been acting,
proves, as I at first suspected, that you are yourself the author of the calumny ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"... honnêteté, grandeur, sensibilité, âmes nobles," and "that interminable ravelment
of reward and approval, virtue being its own reward. ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"There is no resource for it, but to get into that interminable ravelment of Reward
and Approval, virtue being its own reward; and assert louder and louder, ..."
6. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"What harm, therefore, if the foresight and ingenuity of other investigators bring
to the task of un- ravelment a fresher mentality and more unprejudiced ..."
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